On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:13 -0500, Frye, Matthew wrote: > >Oh, and Phil, one nitpick. Just because someone has a Masters > >in a subject doesn't make them a good teacher. They can know > >the material up and down and still not be a good teacher. I'm > >not suggesting this guy is a bad teacher, but I think it's independent > >of what degree he has. > > True. So very, very true.
I don't know how it is at the community colleges, but my experience at University (way back in the last century about three decades ago) was that sometimes a course was taught by a masters or PhD student whose lower degree was in a different discipline and was trying to learn the subject just in time. Sometimes even Professors worked this way when teaching a new course. For example my undergraduate Computer Architecture class was taught by a very nice guy who had a masters in Math and was in his first year towards a PhD in Computer Science. A lot of us undergraduates knew more than he did. For our final project we were to design the logic for a computer with a simple instruction set. I had been reading outside of the course and inspired by Samir Husson's book on microprogramming designed a microprogrammable computer and gave the ROM contents to implement the given instruction set. It took me quite a bit of effort to convince the guy that I had indeed successfully solved the problem. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
